"Huge" wrote in message
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On 2009-07-11, newshound wrote:

Thanks to political correctness, the DEFRA environmental impact
assessment
in their Ragwort Control leaflet tells you there are at least 71 types of
insect which live on it.....

Our ragwort gets infested with Cinnabar Moth caterpillars every year, so I
leave it alone - I'd rather have the moths.

Unfortunately mine is in the starvation paddock for fat little
Shetlands......